Global Wealth Distribution

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A fabulous visual representation of wealth and life expectancy for 200 countries of the world set in motion for 200 years. If only you could know which countries would do well in advance.

Below is a pie chart of global wealth from Wikipedia. You can see that the US is over 25% of the total and the top 5 countries account for more than 50%. The big question is how will this change in the next 5, 10, 20 years!